if you are a tourist, what matters is the murder rate involving tourists. It is small or non existent in the BVIS. If I travel to Chicago and stay on Michigan avenue, I am quite confident I will not be a murder victim, while the murder rate is very high. That is not a feeling, it is a statistic that when understood makes it likely a very safe place to visit.

The other item is the extremely small population that makes one murder hugely skew statistics..so from one year to the next, if you have no murders..great, if you have one, then the per capita murder rate is huge compared to more populous countries.